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Python and Ruby needed external libraries to understand JSON until those libraries have been moved into the respective standard libraries.
by gioele 13y ago
Python and Ruby needed external libraries to understand JSON until those libraries have been moved into the respective standard libraries.
- kbenson 13y agoThey needed external libraries to parse it, but the information is easily represented in native data structures, is it not? That's what people are referring to.
- droithomme 13y agoDo you use Python or Ruby? JSON has been in Python's standard library since 2008. http://docs.python.org/2/library/json.html http://docs.python.org/2/library/json.html It's also in the Ruby standard library. http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib-1.9.3/libdoc/json/rdoc/JSON.html http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib-1.9.3/libdoc/json/rdoc/JSON.h...
- gioele 13y agoYour comment just reinforces my point: neither Python or Ruby supported JSON since their inception. JSON has been launched around 2002. Python has incorporated one of the many existing libraries in 2008 after a lengthy discussion, the last part of which is http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-3000/2008-March/012583.html http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-3000/2008-March/0125... Ruby had no support JSON for years, it has been added, in its current form, to the stdlib only in 2007. XML has been supported by Python since 2000 (minidom + sax) and by Ruby since 2003 (REXML). The idea that JSON is used more than XML just because programming language supports it "natively" clashes with the evidence.